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We had some issues with the back brakes.  Drum brakes are just not either of our strong suit, i have no clue why, Nick can make the truck start by itself and I can make rusto paint outshine most custom jobs, yet springs confuse us, LOL.  Been on light duty and off for the past 2 days with my neck back messed up  again, but we did manage to get the brakes going strong and were able to get him up on the highway and he did great.
Really hard to tell at this point especially gas milage what he is going to end up doing with everything being gone.  The most noticable thing at this point is his power.  Brutus has always been slow, but it looks to me like at least the zero to 40 mph speeds have just about doubled

Did you get the brakes properly adjusted now, George?
I think I still have pics on my phone from when I had my drums off earlier this year.
The adjuster cables were hanging on by one strand.

Glad Brutus is doing better.
He will be a reliable DD while you sort the Ranchero and figure out what to do with the CV.

ours were to jim, hanging on and the adjusters were gone

Take it easy on your spine George.
The truck's not going anywhere.

And I think you mean 0-40 times have halved
0-40 speed is still 0-40 speed, unless you mean that you can get to 80 in your old 0-40 time.

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Where I see people have problems with drums is that they have the leading and trailing shoe incorrect.

I think Dave Grant (fuzzface) said one of his trucks had both long shoes on one side and both short shoes on the other!  

our main problem was getting the adjuster lever ligned up with the adjuster.  finally got it though, after the 3rd try, we took the whole thing apart again and for some reason, it just went together

  Wish I had more than 1 thumbs up to give for Brutus' first drive!    

Thank you, believe me, i didn't think we would ever get to this point.

Jim, hard to say what it is going to do between 40 and 80, haven't had the balls to do that yet.  Want to make sure everything is doing well before any of that.  I'm pretty sure it will probably do about the same as it always has, we never had any issues at highway speeds, it was always getting that slow pull monster up to speed which does not seam to be an issue anymore

OIC

My pictures wouldn't have done you any good.
Eight lug hubs and my springs are entirely different!

Thanks for taking us along for the ride!  

When we finally get him up on the highway. This is gonna play once we hit I10 and lay into it. but you know me, have to do the everything myself. including the music. https://youtu.be/PykYACTm6AI

Damn, I nailed it before I even clicked the link!  

I guess I'm dating myself but that really was my first thought

it's just one of those songs you just need to lay into it on the highway.

when you get your system up and running in the truck, listen to it, i have bass coming off the Roland Juno 106 at 19.75 hz and up

It's installed.

Sounds ok. I haven't had the inclination to dive into the EQ and crossover settings.
I'm just glad it doesn't have the fuzzy blown speaker sound any more. And it has much better rear channel fill and bass with the 6x9's and the little 100W sub.

awesome.  glad you got it .  you still using the alpines or did you get the Polks?

I have the 6x9 Alpines in the box behind the seat, but the 6.5 Polk's in the doors.
Those speakers are going to have to wait for Christmas or something.
I'm hemorrhaging money right now.

Gary texted me asking about the Polks and showing me the hack job Florida Man did installing the sound system in Big Blue.
I pointed out his radio is only 16W RMS and would have to be maxed to drive the speaker combo he wants.

He will be getting the overhead console for Christmas, so there's room for a second set of 6.5's firing right at your head from there.
Given that he doesn't want a head unit that plays any kind of physical media I suggested he have a look at the Sony I got and compare it to other units on Crutchfields website.

He also wants a CB/FMRS radio and could probably put a mono speaker for that in the Bullnose dashpad.

George - It looks to me like you forgot to tick the Message Is In HTML Format box on the post where you embedded your video.  Go edit that post and just tick the box and see if it works.  But I can't get it to play.

Congrat's!!!  Such a good feeling.  But take it easy and save your back.

. It had two superfluous sets of embed tags around it..... wish I could get that kind of link from YouTube on an Android device....